{"id":1634,"date":"2006-10-03T00:36:55","date_gmt":"2006-10-03T00:36:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/?p=1634"},"modified":"2006-10-03T00:36:55","modified_gmt":"2006-10-03T00:36:55","slug":"2006-10-3-woodward-on-ghorbanifar-ledeen-and-cheney-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/?p=1634","title":{"rendered":"Woodward on Ghorbanifar, Ledeen and Cheney"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\">Since we recently mentioned both <a href=\"\/archives\/2006\/10\/01\/always-look-on-the-bright-side-of-life\/\">Bob Woodward&#8217;s new book<\/a> and <a href=\"\/archives\/2006\/10\/01\/merchant-of-death\/\">Middle Eastern arms dealers<\/a>, take a look at this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prospect.org\/weblog\/2006\/10\/post_1529.html#011970\">Tapped post<\/a> quoting Woodward on how <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Manucher_Ghorbanifar\">Manucher Ghorbanifar<\/a> got in touch with Dick Cheney via Michael Ledeen about Iraq&#8217;s WMDs. Ghorbanifar being a legendary Iranian arms dealer, of course.<\/p>\n<p>I am constantly amazed that Michael Ledeen is still an influential personality in the Beltway. Or that the American Enterprise Institute is taken seriously at all. There should be a campaign to ban any contacts between elected officials and representatives of think tanks or lobbyists (they are one and the same, mind you.) What&#8217;s wrong with university professors if they need experts?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Updated: <\/strong>Have corrected typo in title.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\">Since we recently mentioned both <a href=\"\/archives\/2006\/10\/01\/always-look-on-the-bright-side-of-life\/\">Bob Woodward&#8217;s new book<\/a> and <a href=\"\/archives\/2006\/10\/01\/merchant-of-death\/\">Middle Eastern arms dealers<\/a>, take a look at this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prospect.org\/weblog\/2006\/10\/post_1529.html#011970\">Tapped post<\/a> quoting Woodward on how <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Manucher_Ghorbanifar\">Manucher Ghorbanifar<\/a> got in touch with Dick Cheney via Michael Ledeen about Iraq&#8217;s WMDs. Ghorbanifar being a legendary Iranian arms dealer, of course.<br \/>\nI am constantly amazed that Michael Ledeen is still an influential personality in the Beltway. Or that the American Enterprise Institute is taken seriously at all. There should be a campaign to ban any contacts between elected officials and representatives of think tanks or lobbyists (they are one and the same, mind you.) What&#8217;s wrong with university professors if they need experts?<br \/>\n<strong>Updated: <\/strong>Have corrected typo in title.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[26,92],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1634"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1634\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}